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May 23, 2002

TIM WILSON says I'm worrying too much about counters and numbers. He's right. It's just that every damned reporter who calls or emails wants to know this stuff, and I feel stupid not answering. Then there was a John Scalzi piece where he implied that bloggers were inflating their number claims. Hence the public counter.

But hell, I should just give up and install one of these (click on it; it's amusing):

Life's too short. I mean, it's not like somebody's paying me based on this traffic. In fact, it's not like somebody's paying me, period, except via the occasional donation. And I like it that way.